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The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

Professor Dustmann and Dr Otten are coauthors in the first report in CEPR's Monitoring International Integration series, Europe's Trust Deficit: Causes and Remedies. They analyse the roots of the decline in trust in both national and European political institutions, as reflected in the rise of populist politics.

External Research Fellow

Following the completion of his PhD at the University of Leicester in 1998, Michael Shields worked as a lecturer in the department of economics at the University of Leicester before taking up a senior lecturer position in the department of economics at the University of Melbourne (Australia) at the end of 2001. Michael is a Research Fellow at the IZA (Bonn), at the Research School for Social Sciences (RSSS) at the Australian National University and at the Melbourne Institute of Economic and Social Research. His main research interests span contemporary applied health and labour market issues. In particular, he was worked on the economics of immigration in the UK context, ethnic differentials in the UK labour market and the experience of ethnic minority and immigrant nurses in the UK National Health Service. His most recent work has focused on the determinants of life satisfaction, especially the relationship between increased income and satisfaction, as well as the economic behaviour and health of children. He currently holds two Australian Research Council grants to examine the issue of nurse shortages currently facing many countries. He has published around 20 papers in international economics journals.